With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.




Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
The Los Angeles Issue

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.

yeule, Evangelic Girl Is a Gun
The London-via-Singapore alt-pop songwriter continues to experiment on their fifth album, with the heaviest and weirdest moments also feeling the most authentic and energizing.
Margaret Farrell

The new single follows Wilson’s “WHOA WAIT” and “Woo Woo Woo” from earlier this year.

For the single’s 20th birthday, the Chicago-based group emphasize that it’s become an angsty classic.

The track arrives with the news of a new album of the same name coming November 5 via Matador.

The LA-based songwriter’s debut album “One More Taste of the Good Stuff” is out October 15.

It’s the latest single from their debut album “Inside Every Fig Is a Dead Wasp,” out October 22 on Keeled Scales.

Hear the second single from the group’s ninth studio album, arriving October 22 via ATO.

Barnett also launched an interactive site where you can isolate and play around with her recordings.

Her first single since 2019 comes with the news of her signing to Secretly Canadian.

It’s the title track from his forthcoming album out October 29 on Fat Possum.

It’s the lead single from her forthcoming mixtape “The Incompatible Okay Kaya,” out October 22 on Jagjaguwar.

It’s one of four bonus tracks off the composer’s forthcoming limited edition version of his 2020 album.

Legendary divas are the inspiration behind “Pressure” and “Have Mercy,” two of the biggest singles that dropped today.

The new song comes with the announcement of her only 2021 show, performing alongside the LA Phil.

The label is a flexible creative outlet for him and other artists to create music, visual, and experiential projects.

The London-based artist shares one of his strongest tracks yet.

The lead single arrives ahead of her next album “Madison,” due November 5.

Pavement publicity photos
These will be the group’s first shows since their last reunion in 2010.

The singer will also be touring with Real Estate, alongside shows with Faye Webster and Jeff Tweedy.

“Phantom Island,” the duo’s first album in nine years, is out November 19 via Chimp Limbs/Ingrid.

The new single announces their forthcoming album “YAK: A Collection of Truck Songs,” out October 22.